About Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a publisher, critic, eco-activist, artist, and poet. He is the author of 13 books including most recently Triple Crown, Sonnets, and Party Everywhere. The Operating System will release Radio Poems this year. He received his MFA in Poetry after studying with Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College and taught there for several years. He has served on the Poetry Project’s board and taught there as well. From 1987 to 2000 he ran Cover Magazine, the Underground National. Poems of his are included in the 2017 issue of New American Writing. Currently, Wright stages events at KGB and La Mama in New York City in conjunction with his annual journal called Live Mag!. You can find also find him at jeffreycypherswright.com/.